Inflict Quotes

191 Inflict quotes by 162 unique authors

By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking… — David Frum
The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that… — Julian Baggini
They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives. — Bob Dylan
Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future — B. H. Liddell Hart
The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning. — Kedar Joshi
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. — George Meredith
If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole… — Joshua Lederberg
The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull… — Desmond Tutu
Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could not… — Bryan Fischer
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys… — Jean de la Bruyere
I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself.… — Michael J. Fox
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such… — Cyril Connolly
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. — Denis Diderot
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but… — George Eliot
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man,… — Thomas A. Edison
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are… — Fannie Lou Hamer
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict… — Sydney J. Harris
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. — Tony Kushner
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all. — Niccolo Machiavelli
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. — Jim Morrison
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. — Shaquille O'Neal
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a… — John Ruskin
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. — Thornton Wilder

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